Nottingham Forest v Derby Predictions & Betting Odds – 11th March 2018

Misfiring Rams to come up short at City Ground

Championship Betting

Nottingham Forest v Derby Betting Preview – Championship 11th March 2.30pm

While Nottingham Forest are looking at nothing more than a bottom half of the table finish this season in the Championship, they can at least go out and do some damage to Derby’s promotion push on the weekend. The Rams have fallen out of winning ways recently anyway, as they look to consolidate a play off spot and a bit of pressure and nerves is mounting on their shoulders.

Nottingham Forest News and Form

Nottingham Forest’s season has pretty much already petered out into nothing as they will finish in the bottom half of the table most likely. They have improved recently going unbeaten in their last five (W2 D3) which has been much better for them. They have avoided defeat in their last two home games now (W1 D1) which comes after they had suffered five straight defeats at the City Ground without scoring in any of them. Nottingham Forest have scored barely above an average of a goal per game at home so far in the Championship, losing at half time in eight of their home fixtures. This will probably end up being a low scoring affair so under 2.5 goals at Betfair is at 8/11 odds* (betting odds taken on March 8th, 2018 at 6:03 p.m.). Forest have struggled for home wins this season and that will leave punters pretty iffy about their chances of three points in this one. Of the eight wins that they have collected on home soil, six of them have been by a one-goal margin only so they could come up with three points it probably would be by the narrowest of margins, especially against a top six side.

Derby News and Form

Derby are well off the boil at the moment, just losing their way going without a win in any of their last six and they have collected just the one victory in their last nine Championship games now (D6 L2). So they have their struggles, but they are still proving to be a hard side to actually beat, and have lost just the three away games (W7 D8) all season and have suffered just the one reverse in their last fourteen away from Pride Park. Three of their last four away games have been drawn (L1) and therefore in the Betfair correct score market, the shortest-priced option is a 1-1 draw for 5/1 odds* (betting odds taken on March 8th, 2018 at 6:03 p.m.). Derby have scored at a rate of 1.4 goals per game out on the road on average this season in the Championship and they have taken a clean sheet in 33% of their road games. They have struggled along without a clean sheet in any of their six league outings though home and away combined. Derby starts the weekend in fifth place in the league but their margins of staying in there are shortening with their dip in form.

Nottingham Forest v Derby Head to Head

Derby have a bit of head to head form going over Forest having not lost in their last four against them. The Rams took a 2-0 home win over Forest earlier this season and are (W3 D1) in their last four against them. In their last five visits to the City Ground, Derby have gone W1 D2 L2. Both teams have scored in just one of the last five clashes between the two of them and four of the last five games between the two of them have produced a home win.

Nottingham Forest v Derby Betting Odds*

Derby 7/5, Nottingham Forest 11/5, Draw 9/4* (Betting Odds taken at 01:59 a.m. on March 8th, 2018)

Nottingham Forest v Derby Predictions

The draw has some pretty decent appeal in this one because Forest have improved results recently, whereas the Rams have just been off the boil a bit lately and could struggle to come up with a winner. The 1-1 draw will have appeal.